al Yom al Thalath

I'm sure I was nowhere near as sleepy as Chops was last night, but I still wanted to go to bed. Instead, I got a few things done around the house while I was waiting for dinner to be delivered (or rather, breakfast and lunch for today) and then soaked my feet while flipping through my flash cards. At this point, I have just over two hundred flash cards made up, and since going through all two hundred in a night would probably take too much time and get counter-productive, I think I'm going to try going through fifty a night for the time being. Last night I used my initial fifty, so most of them were reviewing words or phrases that I already knew, but I was unsure of or just plain didn't know a lot of them going into it. I went through the deck twice, and did substantially better on the second go-around, so hopefully the concept of "repetitive short term memory leads to long-term memory" will keep rolling. Tonight will be fifty-one through one hundred, and so on. In case you couldn't tell, I'm getting pretty optimistic about this whole thing.

Also, what a shock to see that in only about two days, the ranks of this blog have swelled from Chops and me to include four new folks! Welcome aboard to loswiththemost, Rikalonius, Hephaestus, and remad.

You know, I got up early, had my post for my other blog all written already, and don't really have that much to do before I leave for work; but I don't have to leave for work for another hour and a half, so I think I'm going to get a jump on the cards for today so that I won't have to worry about them tonight. A full report will be forthcoming.

UPDATE: Okay, two run-throughs of fifty-one through one hundred. I'll probably do at least one more run-through tonight since there were a few that I was really rusty on.